Sidya Touré

'No to a third term' is the slogan around which Guinea's major opposition parties hope to rebuild their once united front against Condé fractured when the Union des Forces Républicaines (UFR) leader Sidya Touré accepted a government post as the president's 'high representative' after the 2015 election (AC Vol 57 No 4 Condé strikes out on his own)...

Buoyed by the recovery of its base and its inroads in Haute Guinée the UFR may well seek to test its own strength with a Sidya Touré candidacy in the first round...

Opposition leaders Cellou Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré likened the deal to 'a car boot sale' and called on Parliament to examine and decide on the contract's validity something that should have happened before it was signed...

Fofana's was National Investment Director and then Administrator of Grands Projets until 1996 the year Sidya Touré became Prime Minister and vowed to clean up the unaccountable mess Conté's government had become...

Diallo is increasingly desperate to rebuild his coalition following the departure of his former ally Sidya Touré who has joined the government as Special Representative of the President (AC Vol 56 No 22 Condé consolidates as opposition regroups)...

Accompanying Condé along with the omnipresent Naby Youssouf Kiridi Bangoura Secretary-General to the Presidency with the rank of minister and Condé's controversial son Mohamed Alpha Condé Paris marked the first foreign trip for Special Representative for Sidya Touré (AC Vol 55 No 3 Condé's house clearance)...

The interesting question is twofold: will the electorate reward or punish the country's third-largest party Union des forces républicaines (UFR) for the move its leader Sidya Touré made from the opposition camp to the government...

However much the opposition parties complain about how Condé used his position as incumbent and that his officials massaged the voting figures it seems clear that its leaders such as Diallo and former Prime Minister Sidya Touré failed to inspire mass support...

This is opposed by the main opposition parties: the Union des forces démocratiques de Guinée led by Cellou Dalein Diallo who came second in the presidential poll and the Union des forces républicaines (UFR) of former Prime Minister Sidya Touré who came third...